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Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: April 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I recently tried out ASB 2005. Before that, I had been playing EA's MVP Baseball for about a month. Maybe that is why ASB seems so horrible to me, because it does not even compare in any way to MVP. First of all, the good things about ASB are the "This week in baseball" feature and the franchise mode seems impressive, but the most important thing, the gameplay, is absolutley pitiful. It is impossible to field ground balls. Almost everything gets through the infield. The pitching in ASB is easier than MVP, but it gives you less control over your pitches. The sound is pathetic compared to MVP. It's muffled and dull, the commentators ramble, the player reactions are stupid, many of the batter stances are totally off. The crowd looks terrible and makes almost no noise, unlike in MVP where you can hear the fans saying stuff like "can i get a hot dog over here" or the vendors in philly saying "cheese steak, get your cheese steak." ASB has none of that. One thing that ASB has on MVP is that the mound visit is better because it gives details on how the pitcher is doing and on the upcoming hitters, but the player attributes are way off. Javy Lopez is given "weak hitting" and Pokey Reese is given "weak speed!" Are you kidding me!?!?! By they way, the music in ASB sucks, unlike MVP which actually pays real bands to use their music. Another plus for MVP is that there are several different slides you can do in MVP, like hook, head first,(each to both sides of the bag), pop-up, and of course foot first. In ASB you can do straight head first or foot first only. Overall, ASB gets a one out of 10, purely because of it's realistic franchise mode, but EA's MVP gets a 9/10, so DON'T waste your money on ASB! GET MVP AND YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED! By the way, I also wrote a separate review for MVP if you're interested. But there's something I don't understand: Why isnt Kevin Millar in either game? Is he too not in the MLBPA?

Worst Baseball game this season!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: April 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I recently purchased ASB 2005 and i hated it. But lets start with the good things. ( There are only 4) 1.Unique and awsome spring training mode. 2.Beautiful ballparks. 3.the players will stay dirty even after a slide onto second, in the first inning. And 4.The croud look good (probly better then the players)
Now there are a lot of baseball games out there and most of them are a lot better then ASB 2004. with ASB some of the lower points are 1.A terrible picher/batter system 2.Almost every pitch has the same velocity and movement as a knuckleball 3.The new "feilder cam" where the camera is put on the shoulder of the feilder on defence just doesent work and its way to hard to track the ball. And 4.Replays are verry limited to control.
In the end All-Star Baseball 2004 is either underfunded, created by 3yr olds, or a game for the Nintendo 64.

What was I expecting from Acclaim?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

From Streets of LA, where a Dragon pops out in the middle of a game, to Tony Hawks skateboarding every game Acclaim makes is a miserable failure. This was no different. The crowd is not only 2-D, but it is so blurry you can barley make it out. The ball move faster than the speed of light, and the runners run at a 100 miles an hour, making this game unrealistic. The "feildercam" really ruins the game, because when you are trying to pick up a ball it randomly changes views making you veer off in the wrong direction. If you just hit "X" to pitch, you can drop your controler, and the computer will do the rest of the fielding for you, as a matter of fact, this is the only way to play without getting a patched version sent out, and they charge for shipping (Acclaim, not Amazon). This game gets a -3/10 (Thats right, negative 3) on my scale, which is the lowest rating I have ever given to a baseball game.

AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

do not play this game its sucks medium is too hard and easy is WAY too easy. Fielding is impossible because the player will not automatically catch the ball if they are standing in the catching area. Too many doubles by the computer. The computer will NEVER swing at any balls.

Don't buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is poor at best. The graphics are miserable compared to MVP 2004, so bad that the baseball cards you're supposed to collect are nearly unreadable, even when you zoom in to view them.

Navigation between modes/screens is long and tedious.

The gameplay is also unenjoyable. Fielding is slow, and hitting is more complex than it needs to be.

I've now tried MVP, and ASB this season, and I'm now waiting for ESPN MLB, maybe it won't be the disappointment ASB 2005 has been

Utter Crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Don't waste your money on this game. Pick up EA's MVP Baseball instead. The graphics are better, the gameplay is more realistic. ASB 2005 is stiff and awkward and not much fun.

Unimpressed....it's really not great.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

All Star Baseball 2005 is a decent game. It's not as good as MVP Baseball 2004 and here's why. When I played the game, I noticed the graphics were pretty amazing. The parks and players looked very accurate and were pretty clear. However, for most gamers, graphics isn't everything. I found the game to be very choppy (slow frame rate) when I played; a few times the game stopped for a split second during either a pitch or while in the field, causing me to miss the ball when hitting and I didn't catch the ball so it got very frustrating. The controls are okay, not the best, and the gameplay modes are actually pretty good. There's a homerun derby which is pretty fun, a TWIB section to win some more fun things, a good franchise mode, and more fun options. Also, I liked the camera mode that you can chose when pitching (it's from behind the pitcher just like on TV). Overall, MVP Baseball is probably the better choice because the fps is higher, the graphics are a little better, the Barry Bonds replacement (Bonds isn't in any baseball games because he didn't sign the agreement) is more accurate to Bonds then a white player who's not A+ in contact, and the modes are about the same. This game is definitely worth renting though.

Another flawed game engine.......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Another solid game until you find the weakness with the game engine, if your drag bunt with any runner with speed 80 pts or higher you will reach safely 80+% of the time. Chone Figgins was hitting over .800 50 games into the season for my expansion team as a all bunting lead off man, and you can do it with runners on, bases loaded, and you can even steal home at a 50% clip too. You can ignore this if you decide never to bunt or try to steal home but once you know this its hard to enjoy the game.

Almost an All-Star

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This years installment has made a lot of the necessary improvements to prior years. The new camera angles are confusing if you're used to the classic ones but you can default back to the old views if you want. Barry Bonds and a couple of other players aren't in the game due to contractual agreements. Since Barry didn't renew his membership with the Players Association, no baseball video game can include his name without having to pay him a lot of money. I really like the fact that you can download updates to your rosters to make it more realistic. However, if you are playing in Franchise mode I'm not sure what happens once you update your roster. Does it automatically update your Franchise roster? and if so, do you lose your created players? Good game, not great, but best on the market.

must have!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 53
Date: March 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Very good and detailed... Entertaining with great graphics

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